Lindsey H. Chopin has practiced complex ERISA litigation for six years, most recently as an Associate in the New Orleans, Louisiana, office of Jackson Lewis P.C., and prior to that in the New Orleans office of an Am Law 25 firm. Her practice focuses on the defense of complex ERISA class actions filed against public and private single-employer ERISA plan sponsors and fiduciaries, as well as multi-employer plans and fiduciaries and ERISA plan services providers. Ms. Chopin has litigated a wide variety of class action claims, including fee litigation claims, “church plan” and “government plan” claims, breach of fiduciary duty claims, and ERISA Section 510 claims. Ms. Chopin also litigates ERISA benefit claims and claims involving non-ERISA benefit plans.

Ms. Chopin the author of several ERISA-related articles, including an article focusing on ERISA fee litigation that appeared in the Benefits Law Journal and is a frequent speaker on ERISA and class action litigation issues, including e-discovery best practices and ethics and professionalism when using social media in litigation. She was a contributing author to Chapter 39 the sixth edition of Bloomberg BNA’s ERISA Litigation treatise, published in November 2017 and is a senior editor of Chapter 15 of Bloomberg BNA’s Employee Benefits Law treatise.

Prior to joining private practice, Ms. Chopin served as a one-year term clerk for the Honorable Carl J. Barbier in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, gaining invaluable insight into the litigation of a wide-variety of cases.